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Cissita was a town and bishopric ofRoman North Africa, which only remains as a Catholictitular see.
Cissita was located about 36°54'04"N 10°2' 9.96"W and has been tentatively identified with ruins nearSidi T(h)abet, 24 kilometers fromTunis.
The town was among the manycivitates (cities) of theRoman province ofAfrica Proconsularis of sufficient importance to become asuffragan diocese of the metropolitan ofCarthage,[1] in the papal sway, but like most faded completely, probably at the 7th-century advent of Islam.
Two of its bishops are historically documented (one disputed):
The diocese of Cissita was nominally restored in 1933 as the Latintitular bishopric of Cissita (Latin = Curiate Italian) /Cissitan(us) (Latin adjective)[3]
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:[4]
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